Improved folding lounge



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JAMES W. MQDONOUGH, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. Lezers-Patent No. 60,460, dated pagaba 11, 1866.

TO .ALL WHOM IT'MAY OONCERN:

Be it known that I, JAMIS W. McDonOUGH, of the city of Chicago, in thai county of Cook, and State of Illinois, have invented new and useful `improvements in Folding Lounges; and I dohereby declare th'attlio following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanyingdmwings, maki-gpr'p of this specification, in which-w Figure 1 represents the cross-section of the unfolded lounge.

Figure 2, the cross-section of the folded lounge.

Figure 3, the top view of the opened frame; and

Figure 4, the back view of the opened frame.

The nature of my invention consists in the construction of the frame of the folding lounge in such a manner as to make the said frame when unfolded to have an unobstructed space inside for a' springbed or mattress; it consists also in the construction of the head of the folding lounge so yarranged that when the lounge is 11n-folded it has the head across its entire width. `4

To enable others slilled in the art to make and use my invention, I willproceedto describe-its construction and operation. y

The `top of the inner rails, A, of the frames of the lounge, when this is unfolded, does not come cvcn with the top of the outside or cross -rails of those frames, as is generally the case in other lounges, but is placed lower, so asto form an unobstructed room for a mattress or a spring hed to be placed inside of the frames of the lounge in its entire width and length, hinges` B B to connect the frames, being attached to the cross-rails C Ci' The space inside of the frames may be filled with tow of flax, hair, Ste., &c., or with spiral springs resting on a loose webbing, although in the' lower frame they may rest on a board bottom, and alight mattress is.put over the springs so as to render the operation of folding easy. When the lounge is folded, the middle rails, A A, coming in frontoi` Ithe lounge, an empty space, I), between' them is `formed. Short legs, E E, are attached to the rail, F, to support the top frame Iwhen the lounge s open. The head, H, of the lounge ismadc folding also; and when the lounge is open, the movable part, H', of the head maybe unfolded independently from the lounge,

and is supported by a hook, G, attached to its frame, pressing against or 'resting on the cross-rail, C, of the frame of the lounge, .thus keeping this part, H', in its propcrposition, and forming the head across the entire width of the op'ened lounge.

The above description clearly shows that when the loungeV is unfolded it forms a perfect spring b ed or mattress bed, without having any hard ridge in its middle where its frames are connected, and having a head across its full width; and when folded it is supplied with double springs in its entire length.

Being aware that a folding lounge is an V old 'contrivancc, I do not claim the invention of it, but what I do claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is Y The rails A Aof the frames of the folding lounge, constructed and operating substantially in the manner herein described and specified; and the folding head H of the lounge, constructed and operating substantially as herein `described and speciiied.

J. W. McDONO UGH.

Witnesses:

J. B. TUncnIN, A. W. CnUrr, 

